1/7 AN INTRODUCTION TO CYBERNETICS 



Study, and control, of systems that are intrinsically extremely 

 complex. It will do this by first marking out what is achievable (for 

 probably many of the investigations of the past attempted the 

 impossible), and then providing generalised strategies, of demon- 

 strable value, that can be used uniformly in a variety of special cases. 

 In this way it offers the hope of providing the essential methods by 

 which to attack the ills — psychological, social, economic — which at 

 present are defeating us by their intrinsic complexity. Part III of 

 this book does not pretend to offer such methods perfected, but it 

 attempts to offer a foundation on which such methods can be 

 constructed, and a start in the right direction. 



